U.S. Department of State IN PERSON Information Session Come Learn About Current and Future OpportunitiesOn Campus : COMM 331 You are cordially invited to get to know employers who want to get to know you!  Come join us for an in person presentation by the US Department of the State followed by Q&A. US Department of the State is America's leading foreign affairs agency that works to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and fosters conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere. Our employees contribute to strengthening American diplomacy and use their knowledge and experience in everything from architecture to engineering and technology to medicine to achieve success as they serve with integrity and professionalism. Contribute your different perspectives, life experiences, and innovative thinking to support and advance U.S. interests worldwide. Visit careers.state.gov to learn more.  U.S. citizenship is required. An equal opportunity employer. Please see current opportunities in Handshake as follows: Student Trainee at U.S. Department of State Government Information Specialist, GS 07-09 at U.S. Department of State Haven't claimed your account in Handshake yet? Update your profile so employers can find you.  Get started HERE!

We have good news! The deadline for submissions to the 2023 edition of the UMBC Review has been extended to Friday, September 23rd. In consideration of the updated deadline, the editors are reaching out to see if you could share the attached information with students in your department. Thank you again for helping us spread the word about this opportunity!

The submission application can be found at:https://ur.umbc.edu/umbc-review/. Click "Submit Here!" We encourage students of all majors and disciplines to send in their research! Your papers do not have to be ready for publication or perfect right now, we just want to see the best work and research you have completed! Papers may include original research and/or artistic projects alongside artistic statements exploring the research and process you have completed, and discoveries you have made. Reach out to umbcreview@umbc.eduif you have any questions. 

Community Partnerships to Advance Science for Society (ComPASS) Program: Community-Led, Health Equity Structural Intervention Initiative (OT2)

NIH staff will hold technical assistance webinars for the required letter of intent (LOI) for all interested applicants on October 4th and October 11th from 2 - 3 pm ET. 

Registration is required.

Every election year, ALL IN to Vote hosts a Pledge to Vote leaderboard for university students across the country. UMBC placed #9 in the nation on the leaderboard in 2020. This year, let's reach #1!

Take the pledge, and spread the word. Faculty and staff members can pledge too (but don’t count on the national leaderboard).

Political leaders are increasingly engaging in "constitutional hardball" - bending lawmaking rules for partisan gain. This lecture contextualizes this phenomenon historically and describes how constitutional hardball weakens American democracy today.

Organized by the Department of Political Science and cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship.

Robinson Woodward-Burns researches American constitutional thought and development, focusing on civil rights, federalism, slavery, and abolitionism. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. from the University of Maryland, and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary.

His first book, Hidden Laws: How State Constitutions Stabilize American Politics, was published in 2021 by Yale University Press. Using datasets and historical case studies, the book argues that high barriers to national constitutional change have encouraged reformers to instead seek state constitutional revision, addressing national controversies over economic and labor regulations and voting, civil, and gender rights. He is writing a second book, on constitutional hardball, as a 2022 Kluge Fellow at the Library of Congress. His research has also been published in The Journal of Politics, Polity, Perspectives on Politics, Studies in American Political Development, The Maryland Law Review, The Nebraska Law Review, and The Tulsa Law Review, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. You can find more information on his website and Twitter profiles.

UMBC is offering the free ten-week AI4ALL program again this Fall. It's an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students (Fresh., Soph., and Juniors) in any major to learn about artificial Intelligence. If you'd like to share this opportunity with Political Science undergraduate majors, you can email them the text below, which includes links to more information.  AI4ALL is particularly interested in engaging students from under-represented groups and from outside traditional STEM disciplines

Get more information here apply by September 14, and contact ai4all@csee.umbc.edu with any questions.